Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” ...
National Book Award-winning author of South to America, as well as eight other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss ...
How a Color Tells the Story of My People, published by Harper Collins this month. Below, she discusses Black excellence and ...
Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...
Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, ...
Short reviews of recent releases.
The scholar recommends four inventive books that offer instruction on how to create meaning, beauty, and intimacy amid ...
Public intellectual Imani Perry will be in conversation with actor Andre Holland for a special event at the Birmingham Museum ...
Harvard professor and Birmingham, Alabama, native Imani Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for nonfiction for “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.
How a Color Tells the Story of My People,” Imani Perry approaches her subject as an abundant and lyrical mystery ...